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WATCH CHECK.

110,284,623. Patented' sept. 11 1:883.

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UNTTED STATES SPENCER H. FULLER, OF LEVIS'ION,

PATENT OFFICE.

MAINE WATCH-CHECK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent lNo. 284,623, dated September 11, 1883.

Application filed March 5, 1883.

T all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, SPENCER HosEoRD FUL- LER, of Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin, of the State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Checks for Vatches, &c., and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-'- Figure l is a View of a watch with one of my improved checks applied to it. Fig. 2 is a side view, Fig. 3 an edge view, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal section, ofthe said check. Fig. 5 is a side view of the fellow or auxiliary check. Fig. 6 is a view of the two checks in engagement with each other.

\V ith my improved check all necessity of a strap, string, or cord for securing it to a watch-ring or to the auxiliary check is dispensed with. These checks are particularly intended for use by watch-makers or repairers of watches, one main and one auxiliary check having like numbers on them being employed for each watch left for repair, the auxiliary check being given to the owner of or person leaving the watch, and the main check being attached to the ring ofthe watch.

In the drawings, A denotes the watch B the main and C the auxiliary check, such checks having like numbers or designating devices or marks upon them. rIlhe auxiliary check is simply a disk or metallic plate of suitable form, having within it, near its edge, a slot, a, to receive the hooks Z) b of the main check, such hooks and the intervening elastic tongue 'c serving to keep the two checks in engagement when the hooks are in the slot.

In carrying out my invention I provide the main check B (formed like the auxiliary check) with two hooks, b b, and one elastic tongue, c, all as represented, and generally struck or made in one piece of metal with the body of the check. The hooks project from the pe' (No model.)

outwardly beyond the hooks, so as to force the tongue away from the hooks and allow of the ring being pressed into the space between the tongue and the hooks, which having been done, the check will be engaged with the ring, and by thehooks and spring will be supported in the plane of the ring, in order to have its numbered or marked face in a position to be readily seen when the watch may be hung upon a hook. After the watch may have been repaired, the watch-maker, on receiving the auxiliary check from the party owning the watch, is t0 remove the main check previously put in connection with the watch.

I am aware of the hat-check described and represented in the United States Patent No. 102,982, dated May l0, 1870, which consists of tweezers and one or two perforated disks to slide thereon, there being no tongue to such, and differs very materially from my watchcheck as above described, which is a disk or plate having two hooks extended from its periphery or perimeter, and also having arranged between and to project beyond them an elastic tongue, as set forth.

I claim- The watch-check consisting of a plate or disk hc ving two hooks, b b, projecting from it at its edge, and also having an elastic tongue, c, arranged between them and to project beyond them, substantially as shown and described.

SPENCER HOSFORD FULLER. vitnesses:

' R. H. EDDY,

E. B. PRATT. 

